Be nice to likewise see more La5, Spit 9, Yak 9U and the rest of the mid tier planeset too
people will fly what they want, that's the beauty of this game.
Sorry but the game is most definitely based on WWII. Every virtual asset in game is from the period of WWII 1939 - 1945.
People can not fly what they want in Aces High. There are a number of planes that are perked and an ENY system that restricts people from flying the majority of the super planes if numbers are skewed in their favour.
Having said that doing away with the current ENY system I would be in favour of. It must suck as a Bish spending 50%+ of time flying 20 ENY or higher planes.
A better system would be to move ENY to town and field objects and off planes altogether, have 3 times the numbers, must use 3 times the bombs on the objects. Perk the latest war models.
Now you might say that's forcing people not to fly those planes, or forcing them to pay to fly those planes, or whatever but I would disagree. Its giving them a choice, fly a Spit 9 (an awesome plane), or fly a Spit XVI (an even more awesome plane as a reward for killing people in the Spit 9 and gaining perks). It should be trivial to get enough perks to fly another Spit XVI just by flying the Spit XVI given its capabilities). If you can't get 3 - 6 perks in a Spit XVI before you die its probably not a good idea for you to be flying one. It was very common in WWII for great and good pilots to be given the best planes while the newbies got the trash until they proved themselves.
I hardly fly Spit, LA, or N1K, Yak3 but when I have I have found its somewhat like setting the game from Normal mode to Easy. In fact its so easy I generally become very complacent, stop worrying about SA, E and I find myself getting into stupid situations I'd usually avoid and get shot down